It is so hard to break old patterns, routines, and habits. But it is necessary. We have to grow and change. It is painful and destructive. It feels that way because it is. Like you need to destroy a house to build a new one, the process includes destruction.
We often get stuck in a rut, unable to change our patterns, or mind. We know it hurts us and we continue sitting in the rut because the climb out is hard and so scary. It is uncertain and it feels like it would be so much work and pain, more than the one we are in.
But we have to. We have to walk outside our confront zone, play with the lines of our limitations, in order to grow. To figure out who we are. We cannot grow if we stay in the same place.
I try to remember this in all aspects of my life. I try to try new recipes, to go new places, to experience new things. I try to remember that I am not a static being, I am in a process of growing, expanding. It can be tiring and it does not always produce fantastic results, but experience is experience. Even if knowing I do not like something (like Gorgonzola).
It reminds me of a quote from Jacqueline Carey, ‘All knowledge is worth having’. That quote has stuck with me through the years and I still believe in it. I could expand on it, ‘Experience, of all types, is worth having’.
Our capacity to adapt can surprise us.